Sentences with phrase «as oddities»

Leah Clements (b. 1989) is a London - based artist whose practice is concerned emotional experiences, intricate details in individual relationships and group dynamics, as well as the oddities inherent in «normality» and human interaction.

They have popped up from time to time over the years, but more often as oddities than as viable products.

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

In these lexicon - stretching conversations, I feel like that gets lost, and the worship service is treated as an oddity that really has nothing to do with church.

The contest started shortly after Clinton, whose position as a political spouse in 1992 with her own ambition and career, was at the time viewed by some as an oddity and an issue in the Democratic primary.

By and large, The Wizard is best viewed as an oddity and not so much for any film making or acting talents (even with the suave presence of Christian Slater).

baptized in order to get funding from the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, an event that only added to his reputation as an oddity.)

(He had the entire cast of Plan 9 baptized in order to get funding from the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, an event that only added to his reputation as an oddity.)

Further defining this disc as an oddity, Disney discontinued it in 2005 with no fanfare or apparent logic.

Perhaps a distant cousin of Blade Runner, on paper, Under the Skin certainly comes across as an oddity, but where Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) excels in as a filmmaker is outfitting societies» fringe characters with empathetic, human - like qualities.

They depicted Linda Jackson as a sex crazed wild black woman and perpetuated the idea of sleeping with a woman of color as an oddity.

A fishing game isn't the immediate thing you'd think of when considering potential gameplay directions for titles spun off from the mainline Final Fantasy series; after thirty years we've seen more than our fair share of deviations from the established JRPG formula the franchise helped popularise, including forays into real time strategy and even Chocobo racing games, but FFXV: Monster of the Deep truly stands out as an oddity amongst even those initially curious choices.

Obama recalls being in a daze that day, treated as an oddity.

As a society, we still marvel at that «stay - at - home» dad, viewing him largely as an oddity worth questioning.

As an oddity, Opel Adam doesn't have any AEB or forward collision warning features but does have Blind Spot Monitoring and a self - parking feature.

A fishing game isn't the immediate thing you'd think of when considering potential gameplay directions for titles spun off from the mainline Final Fantasy series; after thirty years we've seen more than our fair share of deviations from the established JRPG formula the franchise helped popularise, including forays into real time strategy and even Chocobo racing games, but FFXV: Monster of the Deep truly stands out as an oddity amongst even those initially curious choices.

On the demo disc, it stood out as an oddity.

Standing out as an oddity is a portrait of Karen Carpenter: Is it a random marker of 1970s pop culture or a doppelgänger of the artist?

Otherness as a gap, however — as something that was not appropriated as a symbol, but that could be sensed only obliquely as an oddity and a strange discomfort that we are reluctant to face — existed only in a handful of works, some of them installations that included at least two objects and some digital media work.

In this case, extending the solution down from the top of the atmosphere results in a discontinuity at the surface, which has long been regarded as an oddity, but apparently assumed to be real and resolved by convection.

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There is another oddity at Barça too: The president and board members are required to put up 15 % of the club's yearly revenues as collateral when they're voted in, as a guarantee against possible losses.

An oddity outside China's borders less than a decade ago, the renminbi (which translates as «the People's currency») is quickly becoming one of the world's most commonly used forms of payment.

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

But it is an oddity that has nothing to do with us» as investors.

If you wear one, you risk being labelled as «that fellow who wears novelty ties,» a sort of office oddity akin to «that lady with the Chihuahua pictures» or «the gentleman with the Tardis on his desk.»

So the fact that Tesla, one of several innovative companies that Musk is juggling, is now a newly minted member of the 500 Club — arriving for the first time this year on Fortune's annual register of the biggest U.S. companies — might strike some as a curious, if marvelous, oddity: the brash, antiestablishment carmaker parked in one of the reserved spaces for America's corporate elite.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

By focusing exclusively on English we might even have begun to recognize the oddity of our names for certain cardinal numbers such as «eleven» and «twelve.»

This is a small sample of a wider claim; the convictions argued here do not admit to being categorized as a sectarian oddity or a prophetic exception.

If the bible were a scientific text, it would have been relegated as a historical oddity long ago.

But the oddity is produced by the same trend of affairs that stamps the Christian Coalition, or the religious in politics, as aggressors.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

The Songbook will examine rock's largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism.

Rather, they have become relics — quaint oddities not to be taken seriously but only to be treated gingerly as part of a bygone culture.

The sheer complexity and oddity of Christian theology, as C.S. Lewis noticed, «has just that queer twist about it that real things have.»

However, as with the Old Testament companion, this volume shared some of the same oddities.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

As hashtag activism has gone from an Internet oddity to a full - on force for change, we have become enamored with what what we either call «being a voice for the voiceless» or «giving a voice to the voiceless.»

If you guessed any other state than Florida, you're off your rocker, because Florida is currently doing the rest of the U.S. a favor by acting as a repository to our nation's ends, oddities and at least one ominous vessel hailing from undead waters.

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How could the richer animistic aspects of Nature, the peculiarities and oddities that make phenomena picturesquely striking or expressive, fail to have been first singled out and followed by philosophy as the more promising avenue to the knowledge of Nature's life?

UB is now bringing all its savoury biscuits and baked snacks under the single masterbrand of Jacob's, including its crackers, crispbreads and flatbreads, and brands such as Mini Cheddars, Oddities and Twiglets.

As young marrieds we are an oddity in the Netherlands, and often are asked by curious strangers to explain our How and Why.

South Philly water ice, which should not be confused with Italian ice, is a textural oddity, somewhere between a solid and a liquid, and just as easily slurped from the cup as eaten with a spoon.

The oddities and ironies that were so characteristic of this Series began to assert themselves in the third game, at Ebbets Field before a riotous crowd described by Red Smith, then a columnist for the Philadephia Record, as «curious creatures that are indigenous to Flatbush.»

The fact that we had lost all of the three previous clashes in Greece was made to look like a statistical oddity as we controlled the game and cruised to a 3 - 0 victory.

Until it happened, it was quite sad that the idea of a team from outside the usual suspects winning the league was, effectively, in the same bracket as a series of jokes and oddities.

Leaving aside such oddities as the Anglo - Italian and Anglo - Scottish cups, this will be the Foxes» fourth foray into continental football, and however their games turn out, the six group fixtures will constitute their longest European campaign.